Quote:
Originally Posted by freebeard
If the edit is for scansion, I'd go with:
"...people get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death. ...definitely ... in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about with regard to the virus."
He uses repetition. One of many persuasion techniques.
The point about suicides may be arguable. Suicides up but traffic accidents down?
|
Enough of the whataboutisms. Instead of arguing about how a news site paired down that rambling statement.
Did the president or did he not say more people will commit suicide than will die from the virus if we don't open the economy back up?